Astronomy and Salt

ASTRONOMY AND SALT: SPECIAL GUESTS

The UN have declared 2009 the International Astronomy Year and the POSIDONIA FESTIVAL joins the celebration planning special activities such as “Let's Visit the Sky”, a nocturnal observation organized by the Barcelona Aerospace Agency.  The festival also pays homage to the restoration and recovery of Formentera's salt works showing the documentary “The Salt of Formentera” by Carmelo Convalia and organizing a round table with historian Santi Colomar and the director of Formentera's Salt Works David Calzada.
 
Conferences:

SATURDAY 23rd of May 2009 - Conference Room in Plaza de la Constitución in S. Francesc: 

06 pm:
Salt - ROUND TABLE: David Calzada (Director of Salines de Formentera), Salt workers, Santiago Colomar (Historian Expert), Coord. Carmelo Convalia (Journalist)


SUNDAY 2th of May 2009 - Conference Room in Plaza de la Constitución in S. Francesc: 

11 am:
Space and environment - LUIS GOMEZ (Director of Areospace Agency of the Municipality of Barcelona)

01 pm:
The Sky from the Space - Jose Torres Riera (Director of the Dept. of Spacial Programmes and Space Sciences of the INTA)


Cinema:

SATURDAY 23rd of May 2009

04 pm - Conference Room in Plaza de la Constitución in S. Francesc:
The "Sal" documentary, by Carmelo Convalia

 

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